The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
ADOLF LOOSThe house has to serve comfort
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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All art is erotic.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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The house has to serve comfort
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If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
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Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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The house thinks of the present.
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